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  • In spite of his efforts, Ivan could not get much further than the "Kak vam skazat '?" that is to say, "How am I to tell you?"

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • Something said skazat 'dlia krasnogo slovtsa ` in a red way,' for example, is amusing; krasny\?

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1 1979

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  • "To say" (Russian origin)in Nadsat (literary lingo from A Clockwork orange).

    January 7, 2009